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...Shot. The odds on Man o' War were so prohibitive that few people bothered to bet on him-though Plunger "Chicago" O'Brien once wagered $100,000 on him at 1-to-100, and picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were...
Crisler hasn't a single so-called "power play" in all his bag of tricks. Yet he builds his plays on the single-wingback, a formation fundamentally designed for power. On most teams the fullback is a burly, bludgeoning line-plunger. Crisler's fullbacks must be slick ball-handlers; they start most of his plays...
Irwin Winkelried has won Grimsley's regular right halfback post. A hard, rugged plunger and a fine defensive player, the sophomore back is one of the most consistent performers in the Scarlet lineup and sports a 5.4 average in yards gained rushing...
...type of player he wants, Brown sends his scouts to small colleges. From Nevada, he picked up Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...